Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus on your mac dev machine?

Posted by aufreak3 on Saturday October 23, 2010 @10:42PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've not been using one for ages and have had no visible problems. Of course, I don't know about the problems I can't see. So I thought it right to ask you all, since many of you use macbookpros as your dev machine, going by what I read.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus on your mac dev machine? by alanthonyc on Sunday October 24, 2010 @01:23AM (#1825309)

I got one as part of a discount bundle of software that I bought once (MacHeist or something like that). I've used it twice, just out of curiosity. The first time, it found some malicious cookies. The second time, nothing.

That's over two years on the same machine.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus on your mac dev machine? by mahmud on Sunday October 24, 2010 @12:38AM (#1825217)

First thing I do with a new machine is remove anti-virus crap.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus on your mac dev machine? by fnl on Sunday October 24, 2010 @01:07AM (#1825279)

nope - I want to work on my machine - same reason why I don't know how to use Windows :)

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus on your mac dev machine? by prateekdayal on Sunday October 24, 2010 @12:24AM (#1825198)

Nope .. is it really needed?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus on your mac dev machine? by geuis on Saturday October 23, 2010 @11:59PM (#1825160)

Nope. I even disabled the one at work that was installed by IT. Slow as fuck.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus on your mac dev machine? by aufreak3 on Sunday October 24, 2010 @02:06AM (#1825365)

Whoops. I got trojans on my company win7 dev machine! So I decided against doing it despite the slow down. Besides, our users run our software on such machines with antivirus software and I just accepted to live like them :)

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus on your mac dev machine? by thedeuce on Sunday October 24, 2010 @12:24AM (#1825196)

Welcome to your future

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use an antivirus on your mac dev machine? by aufreak3 on Sunday October 24, 2010 @02:03AM (#1825361)

so far, promising :)

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